I should have mentioned it yesterday, but there’s an interesting chapter in Basketball on Paper where Dean Oliver gets into the subject of how bad officiating can affect games. Basically, the idea is that a random assortment of missed calls will tend to help the underdog over the course of a season. It gets to the idea that inconsistency is a bad quality for a favorite, and that is what bad (random) officiating creates. Oliver also mentions that it doesn’t take much biased officiating to offset this effect. Something like one biased incorrect call out of 100 in favor of the dominant team would offset the randomness effect.

Friday

                           FG    3pt  FT   Reb
                      Min  M-A   M-A  M-A  O-T   A F S TO BLK Pts
Ibrahim Jaaber         35  9-11  2-2  1-1  1-5   4 2 5  2  1   21
Result: Win. Penn 70, Dartmouth 51.

Saturday

                           FG    3pt  FT   Reb
                      Min  M-A   M-A  M-A  O-T   A F S TO BLK Pts
Kyle Anslinger         36  9-12  9-10 2-2  0-2   1 3 0  1  0   29
Result: Win. Evansville 69, Drake 68.

Sunday

                           FG    3pt  FT   Reb
                      Min  M-A   M-A  M-A  O-T   A F S TO BLK Pts
Bryant Dunston         50  5-9   1-2 12-17 3-14  1 4 0  3  8   23
Result: Win. Fordham 79, Rhode Island 76. (2OT)

Monday

                           FG    3pt  FT   Reb
                      Min  M-A   M-A  M-A  O-T   A F S TO BLK Pts
Whit Holcomb-Faye      39 12-22  5-12 8-9  0-0   3 1 0  3  0   37
Result: Win. Radford 81, Charleston Southern 76.